Bellingcat’s Online Investigation Toolkit

Welcome to Bellingcat’s freely available online open source investigation toolkit. You can follow our work on our
website​, ​Twitter and ​Facebook​. ​Feel free to suggest tools not yet listed here! ​This is version 3.8 (September 15,
2018).

A condensed version of the digital toolkit accessible for anyone with an internet connection, made by H I Sutton,
Aliaume Leroy,​ and Tony Roper. Download h ​ ere​in higher resolution.

The list includes satellite and mapping services, tools for verifying photos and videos, websites to archive web pages,
and much more. The list is long, and may seem daunting. There are guides at the end of the document, highlighting
the methods and use of these tools in further detail. We also provide tailored digital forensics workshops.

Currently, I’m trying to find a better way to thematically structure this list and I’m working on a more extensive guide
with simple case-studies to the tools we use most. This will be an openly available and digital guide in English and
hopefully Arabic too. I will share a link here once it is published. Feel free to contact me with questions or suggestions
via email (​christiaantriebert@bellingcat.com​) or Twitter (​@trbrtc​).

To view an outline of the document, click “View” and then “Show document outline”.

 
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Maps, Satellites, and Streetview

Name Description Pros Cons Link

Bing Maps Microsoft satellite and More recent and Difficult to check the bing.com/maps
mapping service. higher resolution date of the imagery
imagery than Google, (​this tool​doesn’t work
e.g. in Afghanistan and anymore)
Iraq.

converting Convert geographic synnatschke.de/geo-to

coordinates coordinates between ols/coordinate-convert
different notation er.php
styles.

Copernicus The site for the Better resolution than scihub.copernicus.eu

European Space Landsat. See
Agency and for images explanation from the
from Copernicus’ six website
Sentinel satellites. GISGeography​on how
to download free
images.

Descartes Labs A commercial service Will help journalists. descarteslabs.com

that collects data daily “We do not charge for
from public and these requests, only
commercial imagery ask that they are
providers. credited.” (via ​GIJN​)

DigitalGlobe Satellite imagery Preview available via $ discover.digitalglobe.c

vendor. the catalogue, search om
tool very easy to use.

DualMaps Combines Google’s data.mashedworld.co

road maps, aerial view, m/dualmaps/map.htm
and street view in one
embeddable tool.

EarthExplorer From the US earthexplorer.usgs.gov

Geological Service.
Provides mainly US
images. Gives access
to Landsat satellite
data as well as
NASA’s Land Data
Products and Services.
The USGS Global
Visualization Viewer
(GloVis) provides
remote sensing data.
The USGS archive
contains a complete
and well-maintained
collection of NASA
Landsat data.

EOS Landviewer EOS Landviewer eos.com/landviewer

provides free services
for up to 10 images.
More images and
analysis are available
to journalists at a

 
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discount. Contact:
Artem Seredyuk
artem.seredyuk@eosd
a.com. EOS is in the
process of developing
a service provisionally
called EOS Media that
will be providing free
images and analysis of
major natural
disasters.

ESA Earth Online Consolidates earth.esa.int/web/gues

European Space t/eoli
Agency’s earth
observation data on
topics such as
temperature,
agriculture, and ice
sheets.

find2places Allows querying It’s a script, no github.com/musafir-py/

Google Maps API for user-friendly interface. find2places
two specific places in
precise distance from
each other within given
radius. Useful for
geolocating photos
and videos.

Geograph Georeferenced geograph.org

images.

GeoNames Database of location A wide variety of geonames.org

names. different spellings in
various languages.

GeoVisual Search Search engine that lets search.descarteslabs.c

users visually query om/?layer=naip_v2_rg
images for similar b_2014-2015#lat=39.2
geographic features. 322531&lng=-100.854
The platform from 4921&skipTut=true&zo
Descartes Labs is built om=5
on satellite imagery
from Landsat, the
National Agriculture
Imagery Program
(NAIP), and
PlanetScope.
Description​of how to
use it.

Google Earth Pro Add a ​Bing Maps [​software​] Training

satellite imagery layer​. guides ​here​.
Historical imagery.

Google Earth Engine Open-access satellite Virtually any satellite Moderate and coarse https://earthengine.goo
imagery and analytical imagery collected from resolution imagery gle.com/
framework NASA, NOAA, USGS, rather than
etc. is available high-resolution
commercial imagery;
Learning curve with
Javascript

 
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Google Maps StreetView, many No historical satellite maps.google.com

large cities in U.S., imagery, but historic
Europe, modelled in Streetview images
3D. available in many
places.

Google Photos
(formerly Panoramio)

HERE WeGo More recent satellite wego.here.com

imagery than Google
in e.g. Iraq.

Map checking Calculate the amount mapchecking.com

of people that are
standing in the
selected Google Maps
area.

Mapillary Crowdsourced A useful addition to Little to no coverage in mapillary.com

street-level photos. Google Streetview. countries like Syria,
Iraq, etc.

NASA EarthData WorldView allows A wide array of

visualization of near satellite and aerial
real-time imagery from images; broad search
NASA. criteria; and other
mapping and
visualization tools such
as FIRMS for fires.
Access to more than a
dozen NASA data
centres and associated
satellite data products.
NASA Earth
Observations: More
than 50 datasets on
atmosphere, land,
ocean, energy,
environment and more.

Old Maps Online Find old maps through Easy-to-use, similar oldmapsonline.org
numerous databases browsing as the
all around the world. DigitalGlobe
catalogue.

OpenStreetCam openstreetcam.org

OpenStreetMap openstreetmap.org

Radiant Earth A non-profit group that Radiant Earth is radiant.earth

helps the global working with Code of
development Africa, among others.
community discover, Apply to gain
explore and analyze assistance via their
satellite, drone and website. Or contact
aerial imagery Radiant Earth.
archives.

Resource Watch A nonprofit platform, Resource Watch data resourcewatch.org

still in beta, that are free and users can
provides hundreds of download data.
data sets on the state

 
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of the planet’s
resources and citizens.
It is sponsored by the
World Resources
Institute and other
organizations.

Sentinel Hub A user-friendly place Updated every 5-10 Generally low apps.sentinel-hub.com
Playground for Sentinel 2/Landsat days with new resolution of 10m/px. /sentinel-playground
images. imagery, dependent on
cloud cover.
Ability to explore a
variety of GIS
variables eg NDVI or
NDWO. The ​EO
Browser​facilitates
time-lapse reviews.

TerraServer Satellite imagery Highest resolution $ to preview terraserver.com

vendor. available (0.3m). high-resolution satellite
imagery.

Wikimapia Crowdsourced Possibility to switch Can be laggy, and wikimapia.org

information related to between need to refresh page
geographic locations. Google/Bing/OSM. after a view searches.
Massive amount of
UCG information.

Yandex Maps yandex.com/maps

Geo Based Searches

Name Description Pros Cons Link

Animaps Created custom Useful for timeline Not secure, and not http://www.animaps.co
animated maps. recording for well developed. m
investigations

Echosec Geobased searches. Twitter, VKontakte, $ (doesn’t list echosec.net

Foursquare Facebook, genuine
Instagram)

Custom Satellite View Link to allow search as Quick, easy inteltechniques.com/osi

Tools well as auto-populate nt/maps.html
multimap links for
address searching

GeoGig Users are able to Well Developed. If you're not http://geogig.org/

import raw geospatial Linux/Github/Program
data (currently from ming saavy, you will
Shapefiles, PostGIS or be doing a lot of
SpatiaLite) into a reading from the
repository where every manual.
change to the data is
tracked. These
changes can be
viewed in a history,
reverted to older
versions, branched in
to sandboxed areas,

 
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merged back in, and

pushed to remote
repositories.

GeoNames The GeoNames Extremely useful in geonames.org

geographical database Geo Tagging,
covers all countries documentation, and
and contains over data collection.
eleven million
placenames that are
available for download
free of charge

Esri powerful mapping and Robust and full Requires a level of esri.com
analytics software featured account setup and
configurations that
may make some to
forget it.

Follow Your World track your points of Simple, easy to use, followyourworld.appsp
interest and manage dashboard for tracking. ot.com/
your email subscription
settings here.

Liveuamap Interactive live map of Variety of countries liveuamap.com

conflict news. available: ​Afghanistan​,
Iraq, ​Syria​
, U.S.,
Ukraine​, Venezuela,
etc.

Photo-Map.RU Geotagged VKontakte VKontakte photo-map.ru

posts.

SnRadar Geotagged VKontake VKontakte snradar.azurewebsites.

posts. net/search

Twitter Insert in search box: There’s a ​tool​for it too. Easy to fake.

geocode:[coordinates],[
radius-km], for
example:
geocode:36.222285,43
.998233,2km (only
works with km, so
500m = 0.5km)

WarWire Geo-based searches. Twitter, VKontakte, $ (but does list warwire.net

Instagram Instagram)

YouTube Geo-based searches Unclear whether it youtube.github.io/geo-s

shows where it was earch-tool/search.html
uploaded, from which
server, or only filters
on keywords (e.g.
“Paris” in title shows
up in Paris).

Images, Videos and Metadata

Name Description Pros Cons Link Guides

 
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Amnesty Reverse image Searches for a amnestyusa.org/sit Advanced

YouTube (video still) search number of still, not es/default/custom- Guide on Verifying
Dataviewer and exact each frame is scripts/citizenevide Video Content
uploading time. included (thus nce
results may be left
out).

Exiftool Read and Floss, Yet to encounter https://www.sno.p See forum and
manipulate Cross-platform any (Have only hy.queensu.ca/~p FAQ on linked
metadata for a and very easy to used on hil/exiftool/ page
vast number of file integrate into GNU/Linux).
types. Note: no scripts.
GUI

Foca Extracts metadata. Windows-based, No native Linux elevenpaths.com/l NullByte

open sourced support. (needs abstools/foca/inde
2017. wine installed x.html
within Linux)

FotoForensics Image forensics Simple, Public access, fotoforensics.com

tool. web-based. information not
private.

GooFile Extract metadata. Simple to use. Doesn't work well tools.kali.org/infor Ascii cinema
outside Kali mation-gathering/g
oofile

Image Forensics Web-based image Can easily identify Public access, 29a.ch/photo-foren
forensics tool. fake or doctored information not sics/#level-sweep
images private.

InVID Verification plugin invid-project.eu https://www.youtu

to help journalists (plugins for be.com/watch?v=n
verify images and Chrome​, Firefox mgbFODPiBY
videos. Contextual (​Windows​, ​Mac
data, Metadata, OS X​, ​Linux​)
reverse search
(Google, Yandex,
Baidu), image
forensic,
Magnifier)

Irfanview Extract metadata. Windows-based No native Linux irfanview.com

support

Jeffrey's Image Extract metadata, Only requires a Public access, exif.regex.info/exif.

Metadata Viewer online. web browser. information not cgi
private.

Reveal Image Forensic providing Web-based image http://reveal-mklab Documented with

Verification eight filters to tool. .iti.gr/reveal/index. examples and
Assistant detect still images Also available html explanations of the
alterations. within InVID different filters.
verification plugin. Developed in
Reveal​project.

reverse image Locates similar Easy, simple and Recommended tineye.com

search images on the works! plugin: RevEye,
internet which searches
Google, Yandex,
Baidu and Bing.

SpiderPig Extract metadata. Command line Requires github.com/hatlord

 
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interface and dependencies and /Spiderpig

scriptable. knowledge of web
technologies.

Splunk Extract metadata. Report grade Not simple to set blog.sweepatic.co Sweepatic.com
analysis and up and deploy. m/metadata-hacke
presentation. rs-best-friend

Social Media
Facebook

Name Description Pros Cons Link Guides

Graph.tips Automatically graph.tips/beta

advanced
searches for
Facebook profiles.

Who posted Find posts on W​hopostedwhat.c

what? Facebook o​m

IntelTechniques Various tools for inteltechniques.c

analyzing om/menu.html
Facebook profiles
and pages.

Facebook Live broadcasts facebook.com/liv

livemap around the world. emap

Search Tool Find accounts by netbootcamp.org/

name, email, facebook.html
screen name, and
phone.

StalkScan Automatic stalkscan.com

advanced
searches per
Facebook profile.

Video Download fbdown.net

Downloader Facebook videos.
Online

Skopenow Social Media Skopenow.com

Investigations -
name, phone,
email, username
searches.

Instagram

Name Description Pros Cons Link Guides

Websta Find other websta.me Use direct URL with

locations in a location ID, e.g.
Instagram’s websta.me/location/
database near a 116231

 
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particular location.

StoriesIG Tool for storiesig.com

downloading
Instagram stories.

Save Instagram Allows you to do a isdb.pw/save-inst

Stories username search agram-stories.ht
for stories already ml
saved.

LinkedIn

Name Description Pros Cons Link Guides

Socilab Visualise and sociliab.com

analyse your own
LinkedIn network.

Reddit

Name Description Pros Cons Link Guides

F5Bot Sends you an intoli.com/blog/f5

email when a bot/
keyword is
mentioned on
Reddit.

Snapchat

Name Description Pros Cons Link Guides

Snap Map Searchable map of map.snapchat.co

geotagged snaps. m

Tumblr

Name Description Pros Cons Link Guides

Tumblr Originals Find original posts studiomoh.com/fu

per Tumblr, thus n/tumblr_originals
excluding reblogs.

Twitter

Name Description Pros Cons Link Guides

InVID verification InVID plugin Allows InVID verification Automates the

plugin provides a Twitter documenting use plugin conversion between
advanced search cases from the calendar date and
by time interval up past without APIs Unix timestamp in
to the minute. and time limit. Twitter advanced
Allows searching search:
for content within a https://youtu.be/nm
user-defined time gbFODPiBY?t=4m2
range after a 1s
breaking news.

 
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Onemilliontweet Tweets map per onemilliontweetm

map locations up to 6 ap.com
hours old, keyword
search option.

Treeverse Chrome extension t.co/hGvska63Li

to visualise Twitter
conversations.

Tweetreach Find reach of Advanced search tweetreach.com

tweets. operators
available, same as
Google advanced
search.

Twitter advanced Search by date, twitter.com/searc

search keywords, etc. h-advanced

Twitter geobased geocode:[coordina There’s a ​tool​for it

search tes],[radius-km], too.
for example:
geocode:36.22228
5,43.998233,2km

Twlets Download Easy and quick to Goes up to 3,200 twlets.com

anyone’s tweets, use, there’s a tweets, followers
followers and likes Chrome extension and likes.
in an Excel sheet. too.

quarter tweets Geobased Twitter qtrtweets.com/twi

search. tter

YouTube

Name Description Pros Cons Link Guides

Amnesty Reverse image Searches for a amnestyusa.org/s Advanced

YouTube (video still) search number of stills, ites/default/custo Guide on Verifying
Dataviewer and exact not each frame is m-scripts/citizene Video Content
uploading time. included (thus vidence
results may be left
out).

Geo Search Tool Search for youtube.github.io/

YouTube videos geo-search-tool/s
based on location. earch.html

Transport
Air
Name Description Pros Cons Link Guides

AirNav RadarBox Tracking flights, radarbox24.com

including private
and military jets.

ADS-B Exchange Tracking flights. Includes a number global.adsbexchan

Global Radar of ​military aircraft​. ge.com/VirtualRad

 
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ar/desktop.html

ADS-B Historical Look up flight Like https://flight-data.a Search by icao

Flight Viewer history of a FlightRadar24, but dsbexchange.com/ (a.k.a. Registration
specific aircraft as free number)
far back as two
years

FlightAware flightaware.com

FlightRadar24 Tracking (civilian) $ to go back in flightradar24.com

flights. 12-month archive.

PlaneFinder planefinder.net

Federal Aviation Nationwide Plane Comprehensive http://registry.faa.g Search by

Administration Registry list of privately ov/aircraftinquiry/N N-Number (a.k.a.
owned planes in Num_inquiry.aspx Callsign)
the US

Marine
MarineTraffic marinetraffic.com

VesselFinder vesselfinder.com

Railway
Trains Full interactive Denmark​, ​France​
,
maps of various Germany​,
railway networks Netherlands​,
in European Poland
countries.

Misc
WikiRoutes Public transport wikiroutes.info
database.

Date & Time

Name Description Pros Cons Link Guides

SunCalc Make an suncalc.net​/

approximation of suncalc.org
the time of the day
using shadow
direction.

Wolfram|Alpha Does a load of wolframalpha.com

things, including
weather
forecasts ​per day
and location.

 
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Individuals, WhoIs, IPs, Website Analysis

Name Description Pros Cons Link Guides

Passive DNS Collects, stores Complete 15 API calls day,

and analyses data unadulterated 15 searches a community.riskiq.c
from thousands of historical and day. om
passive DNS current DNS
collection sensors. information.

Censys.io Censys continually A complete wealth None Censys.io

monitors every of knowledge of
reachable server internet connected
and device on the devices.
Internet.

Domain Tools domaintools.com

DNS History Collection of Free, simple and Sometimes limited DNS History
historical DNS easy to use. in availability.
information.

DNS Cyrillic Check if malicious Free, simple and https://holdintegrity

check or Cyrillic domains easy to use. .com/checker
are registered

DNS Trails The World's Free, simple and dnstrails.com

Largest Repository easy to use.
of historical DNS
data

Geo IP Tool Check your own geoiptool.com

IP, handy to check
if your VPN is
working,

Shodan Internet of things Can find heaps of Lives in the gray shodan.i​o
search engine. misconfigured zone...
network-connecte
d devices.

● Network-Tools
● Open Site Explorer
● People search
○ Peekyou​, ​peekyou.com
○ Pipl​, the world largest people search engine, find persons behind an e-mail
address, social media username, or phone number, ​pipl.com
○ Yasni​, ​yasni.com
○ Zaba Search​, only US, ​zabasearch.com
○ publicrecords.searchsystems.net
○ cemetery.canadagenweb.org/search.html
○ opencorporates.com
○ www.numberway.com/​- a list of URLs to local White Pages and Yellow Pages,
with the description in English. Useful in finding people and companies.
● Robtex
 
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● Search IRC
● Shodan Computer Search
● Utrace
● ViewDNS
● D​N​
S​​H​i​s​t​o​r​i​c​a​l​​D​a​t​a,​ ​research.dnstrails.com
● SpyOnWeb​, to retrieve websites by their Tracking codes,​​spyonweb.com
● Whois​, for domain search and information, ​whois.net​or ​whois.icann.org

Archiving, Downloading & Internet Storage

Name Description Pros Cons Link Guides

Archive.is Archive any Archive.is

webpage.

DMCA Search takedown lumendatabase.or

notices g

Gruber Slideshare http://grub.cballen

downloader ar.me/

Historic Breach publicdbhost.dmca

Database List .gripe/rando

Hunch.ly Research sidekick. Automates the $$$ hunch.ly

collection of all
sites visited

Wayback Archives websites. github.com/hartato

Machine Download an r/wayback-machin
entire website e-downloader
from the Wayback
Machine.

Wayback Finds and Easy terminal Nil cons. github.com/MadRa

Machine for searches when interface bbit/git-wayback-m
Github and who did what! achine

Gitrob Reconnaissance Easy, free and Nil cons. github.com/michen

tool for GitHub opensource riksen/gitrob
organizations

Dumpster Diver Tool to search for Easy, free and Nil cons. github.com/securin
secrets in various opensource g/DumpsterDiver
file types.

TruffleHog Searches through Easy, free and Nil cons. github.com/dxa44

git repositories for opensource 81/truffleHog
high entropy
strings and
secrets, digging
deep into commit
history

Stone A “research Free, “twitch for Beta www.writeinstone.

transparency” app journalists” com
that captures Audio and video
desktop research files can also be

 
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using screen directly uploaded

capture and from
webcam
commentaries..

Miscellaneous
Name Description Pros Cons Link Guides

BlockExplorer Following a bitcoin https://blockexplor

trail or following a er.com
bitcoin account?

Check Collaborative checkmedia.org User guide​,

fact-checking. Bellingcat’s ​
Check
team

Document Useful for github.com/firstloo

Redaction removing kmedia/pdf-redact-
potentially harmful tools
content in Pdfs
before viewing,
like traceback.

Google Search Such as searching googleguide.com/

Operators for a specific advanced_operato
filetype (e.g. PDF) rs_reference.html
or on a specific
website.

Insecam Network live IP ​insecam.org/en/

video cameras
directory.

LittleSis Database of littlesis.org

who-knows-who at
the heights of
business and
government.

Lumen Collects and lumendatabase.or

analyses legal g
complaints and
requests for
removal of online
materials, helping
Internet users to
know their rights
and understand
the law. This data
enables us to
study the
prevalence of legal
threats and let
Internet users see
the source of
content removals.

Maltego Interactive data Used in online There is a free paterva.com/web7

mining tool that investigations for version but full

 
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renders directed finding version costs $

graphs for link relationships
analysis. between pieces of
information from
various sources
located on the
Internet.

Montage For collaborative montage.storyful.c

working. om

Malicious URL Testing unknown safeweb.norton.co

Tester URLs m

OpenCorporates Database of opencorporates.co

companies in the m
world.

TimelineJS by Make an
Knight Lab interactive timeline timeline.knightlab.
of events. com

Visual timeline Free and easy to https://time.graphi

creator use cs/editor

Unknown Hash On investigation, if onlinehashcrack.c

ID you come across a om/hash-identificat
hash but don’t ion.php
know what it is
(and warrants
further
investigation) this
will identify the
type.

Visual vis.occrp.org
Investigative
Scenarios (VIS)

Zoopla Search for a zoopla.co.uk

property with the
UK's leading
resource. Browse
houses and flats
for sale and to
rent, and find
estate agents in
any area.

Guides & Handbooks

● American Press Institute Fact-Checking Resources​,

americanpressinstitute.org/training-tools/fact-checking-resource
● Bellingcat’s resources​, w ​ ww.bellingcat.com/category/resources/how-tos​, for example:
● E​x​p​o​s​i​n​g​​t​h​e​​I​n​v​i​si​​bl​​e,​ a project by the Tactical Tech Collective,
exposingtheinvisible.org

 
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○ Includes multiple guides (website data scraping, Google Dorking etc.), resource
links, and examples of successful investigations in various fields
● First Draft News​’​​resources, some of which have been written by Bellingcat members,
firstdraftnews.com/resources​, for example:
○ How to Get Started in Online Investigations
● Flash Environmental Assessment Tool, ​for identifying harmful substances and their
effect on the environment after industry has been destroyed:
https://docs.unocha.org/sites/dms/Documents/FEAT_Version_1.1.pdf
● Poynter​, fact-checking how-to guides, ​factcheckingday.com/#how-to
● Poynter​, fact-checkers code of principles, ​poynter.org/fact-checkers-code-of-principles
● Verification Handbook​(PDF) is a great place to go to find tools to verify digital
information, ​verificationhandbook.com
● Washington Post​, guide, ​washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker
● Washington Post​, fact-checker tool, ​washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker
● WITNESS
○ Activists' Guide to Archiving Video
○ Video As Evidence: Verifying Eyewitness Video

WEAPONS

● An open guide called “​Itrace​” by Conflict Armament Research, lots of information on

different kinds of munitions and weapons presented graphically on a map format,
itrace.conflictarm.com

Data Visualisation
Name Description Pros Cons Link Guides

DataBasic.io Web tools for databasic.io/en

beginners that
introduce concepts
of working with
data

DataWrapper Easy to use chart datawrapper.de

and mapping tool

Google Fusion fusiontables.googl

Tables e.com

Maptia maptia.com

Visual vis.occrp.org
investigative
scenarios

RAWGraphs Free webtool to app.rawgraphs.io

quickly visualize
your data

Open Desktop Searches opensemanticsear

Semantic Search unstructured data ch.org/doc/deskto
well p_search

 
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TrustServista Online story www.trustservista.

verification and com
visualisation tool

Neo4j Graph Platform neo4j.com

Online Security & Privacy

● Check for every digital service you use whether you have enabled ​two-factor
authentication (2FA)​, ​twofactorauth.org
● Security in a box guide: ​https://securityinabox.org/en/
● Tech Solidarity​, ​techsolidarity.org
○ Basic Security Guide, do and don’ts for basic security when using a laptop and/or
mobile device, ​techsolidarity.org/resources/basic_security.htm

SEARCH ENGINES WHICH PROTECT PRIVACY

● DuckDuckGo​, Internet search engine, protecting privacy, ​duckduckgo.com

● StartPage​, Internet search engine, protecting privacy, ​startpage.com
● Qwant​, Internet search engine, protecting privacy, ​qwant.com

Sources per Country

Iraq

Name Description Pros Cons Links

Provinces of the umap.openstreetmap.f

so-called Islamic r
State

Syria

Name Description Pros Cons Links

Maps lib.utexas.edu/maps/sy
ria.html

Opposition media See this excellent list reddit.com

compiled by Noor
Nahas of multimedia
sources from Syrian
opposition groups,

Provinces of the umap.openstreetmap.f

so-called Islamic r
State​,

 
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Company Registries

● French SIRENE​, provided by ​Investigative Dashboard​, a queryable version of the french

RCS (Business registry), with OpenRefine reconciliation​​t​o​o​l​.
https://data.occrp.org/entities?filter:dataset=fr_sirene 
● In France, ​https://www.societe.com/
● B​u​s​i​n​e​s​s​​r​e​g​i​s​t​r​i​e​s​​i​n​​E​u​r​o​pe ​ ​,​​on
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https://e-justice.europa.eu/content_business_registers_in_member_states-106-en.do
● Portugal, ​https://publicacoes.mj.pt/DetalhePublicacao.aspx
● For the UK, which covers Gibraltar as well, Companies House
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk
● https://opencorporates.com/
● https://data.occrp.org/

https://challenge.burnerapp.com/

Expert/Source Tools
Name Description Pros Cons Link Guides

Expertise Finder Search engine for http://expertisefind

journalists to find er.com/
experts (currently
only academics in
USA and Canada),
contact
information on
page, no login,
30k experts listed

Expert Guide Academics open Australia only. http://www.expertg

to media in uide.com.au/
Australia:

Help a Reporter Post a query and https://www.helpar

Out experts reply, eporter.com/
mainly the USA
and Canada,
quality of replies is
hit or miss

 
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She Source Female experts, http://www.women

mainly USA. smediacenter.com
/shesource/

Speakezee Academics and https://www.speak

those with PhDs, ezee.org
mainly UK:

Expert File A mix of experts, https://expertfile.co

mainly USA and m
Canada:

- ​https://www.numberway.com/​- ​a list of URLs to local White Pages and Yellow Pages, with the description in
English. Useful in finding people and companies (I've already placed it in the google doc)

-​​https://socialbearing.com/​- lots of Twitter statistics (mostly useful or comparative materials/reports).

Paint.net

Namechk.com

Very good for identifying online accounts with a username. Simply plug the username in and this tool will
identify where there are users using that name.

 
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